Wichita eagle., 1887-08-28
KANSAS PLUMAGR.

The fight for permanent county seat in
Stanton county has commenced.
Leavenworth stands upon about % ,OOO,-
00O, 600 bushels of coal, says the Times.
Corn is being contracted for at Fall
River at the low price of 90 cents per
bushel.
The Southern Kansas company has COM
menced the erection of SEQ, 600 hospital
at Ottawa.
The farmers of Wichita county are going
to nominate ticket and run q party Of
their own this fall.
Two prisoners escaped from the Sumner
county Jail at Wellington Thursday, SEEM
ingly through the negligence of the jailor.
The Clay Center Times complains of the
lazy lot of young men In that place. The
boom having played they have gone to pill
fering.
Haskell county has two women aspirants
for county official honors. One wants to
be register of deeds, the other, county
superintendent.
A lodge of Scottish Rite Masons has
been organized in Hutchinson, and the
thirty second degree. of the order conferred
uponits members.
There Is report that Col. T. J. Peter
formerly of the Atchison. Topeka & Santa
Fe, later In the iron business at Birmin g.
ham, Alabama, has failed.
There will not be fair at Manhattan this
year. The Riley county exposition has
been declared off as far as displaying pro-
ducts, stock. etc., is concerned
The Salina Journal says of the late Ma
tional Mutual Fire Insurance Co., of that
city: 1.-THE simple story is that the COM
pany has not enough funds to pay the
losses"
A handcuffed horse thief, In charge of
the sheriff of Coffey county, escaped from
that officers custody at Fort Scott Thurs
day. The prisoner has not been recap
tured.
The tax levy of the city of Salina for city
purposes is twenty mills and seventeen
mills for school purposes, or S. 20 on the
800 valuation. Now add state and coun-
ty, and the figures will loom up.
The colored people of Emporia are
making preparations for the celebration OF
the emancipation Of slavery in the United
States on September 22nd. Good speakers
are engaged and large crowd of visitors
Is expected.
The city of Harper has passed an ordi
nance making it unlawful to publicly
curse, swear or use abusive language to
wards another person, or publicly use pro
fame, blasphemous, obscene, abusive or Of
fensive language.
The institution for the education of the
deaf and dumb, located at Olathe, will
begin its fall and winter session on the
18th of September The superintendent
says there will be nearly $50 pupils in at
tendance this year.
The Saline County Agricultural, Mechan-
ical and Horticultural Association will hold
their annual fair at Oak Dale Park, Sep.
TENDER 7th, 9Th and 9Th. The officers of
the association are doing everything In their
power to make the fair success.
The next term Of the Southwest Kansas
College at Winfield opens Tuesday, Sep
TENDER 6. The new building will be occu-
pied for the first time and all the arrange
ments will be found complete for the pros
ecution of college work.
The water works are progressing finely,
says the Garden City Sentinel The stand
pipe is now one hundred and ten and half
feet high. There are now eighty two feet
Of water In It, Although the pipe was
filed from the well, the water was not near
exhausted
At the conference Of the railroad COM
misssioners and freight agents held at To-
peka Tuesday the representatives Of the
railaoods agreed to cut the distance tariff
on corn one-third, with the understanding
that the reduced rate shall apply only to
shipments made between points In Kans as
The usual rate will be charged on corn
shipped to points out Of the state
The Rapid Transit traffic began this
morning on schedule time, says the Dem
ocrat, running from opposite the state
house on Jackson street TO Oakland. A
good business was done and more than sat
isfaction given to the patrons. -Four new
closed coaches are On the way to to Topeka
and will be put on the track at once upon
their arrival.
We hear Of a plan of the Lathsmites to
get the next Kansas legislature, to cut a
small slice off of Elk county, a small slice
of Greenwood, ditto from Cowley, and q
big chunk of Butler and make into new
county, with Latham for the county seat.
This would be good thing-for Latham,
but we opine that there will be consider
able kicking on this project before 1t is
full consummated. Howard Courant
The Junction City Union says: People
are taking time by the forelock on the coal
question. A great deal Of 1t Is being de-
livered around town at this time. They
talk of from $13 to s15 per ton for Penn
srlzania hsrd coal A great deal Of Colo